Eclipse Community Forums: Eclipse SmartHome » Channel marked as advanced

Help

Home

Home » Archived » Eclipse SmartHome » Channel marked as advanced

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Channel marked as advanced [message #1705239]

Thu, 13 August 2015 08:32

Smart Home

Messages: 109
Registered: February 2015

Senior Member

Hi,

The documentation says:

Quote:

The advanced property indicates whether this channel is a basic or a more specific functionality of the thing. If advanced is set to true a user interface may hide this channel by default.

But the ThingSetupManager by default doesn't link a channel to an item:

if (channelType != null && !channelType.isAdvanced()) {

For me it seems that the channel should be linked to the item and if the "User Interface" doesn't want to show the item it should hide it.

I will appreciate if you can explain why the ThingSetupManager doesn't link the channel to an Item? Do you consider the ThingSetupManager as part of the UI?

Thx

Report message to a moderator

Re: Channel marked as advanced [message #1705411 is a reply to message #1705239]

Fri, 14 August 2015 20:31

Kai Kreuzer

Messages: 673
Registered: December 2011

Senior Member

In some way, the ThingSetupManager is indeed part of the UI - you can consider it as a supportive server part for the Paper UI. I would not really recommend to use it for any other purposes.
So the fact that the Paper UI creates items for the non-advanced channels is actually the "unusual" thing and not the fact that it does not create items for the advanced ones.
From my point of view, it should always be the user, who creates the items and links them to a channel - the Paper UI just takes a shortcut here to provide a very simple mode for beginners.

Report message to a moderator

Re: Channel marked as advanced [message #1705523 is a reply to message #1705411]

Mon, 17 August 2015 11:40

Dennis Nobel

Messages: 166
Registered: September 2014

Senior Member

Quote:

ThingSetupManager is indeed part of the UI

I would not see it as part of the UI and especially not as a part of the Paper UI. The ThingSetupManager is also used in another commercial product to setup things together with items and links. It is also used for the console. The ThingSetupManager also has the option to not create items and we could also add the option to create all items.

The reason why it not creates all items by default is, that many bindings (e.g. Sonos binding) have so many channels, that it was better to only activate the "important" channels. But the user can always activate and deactivate channels later.

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	System Channel Config Description
Next Topic:	Timer triggers

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Fri Apr 26 19:13:57 GMT 2024

.:: Contact :: Home ::.

Breadcrumbs

Sign up to our Newsletter